Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
7 quotes.
Quotes by Jack London
- A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
- Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
- I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
- Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
- Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
- The function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.